Srosy's Eportfolio

Welcome to my dance and culture page! On this page you will see some work I did in my dance 1010 dance and culture class at Salt Lake Community college. Please enjoy!

What did you learn about another culture’s experience living in the United States? 

From my assignment, I learned that culture is oftentimes adopted into other cultures and becomes mixed and multi-cultural. This is a lot of what happened with Reggae culture, with Dancehall being adopted into Hip Hop for example. I learned a lot about another culture's experience living in the United States the most when I got to interview a friend that was visiting from Germany for my paper. She stayed as a foreign exchange student in Utah and told me of all her struggles and experiences living in another culture and having to become accustomed to it. It really helped me to imagine and put myself in her shoes, of what it would be like and how difficult it would be to get by in another country where I could barely even speak the language.

What impact did this assignment have on you or your understanding of the world?

This assignment really opened my eyes of how the world works sometimes. When I had to analyze the history between the United States and Jamaica, I realized that the USA really used Jamaica for a lot of labor in building the Panama Canal, and almost whatever else t hey could get out of the country. This didn't just happen to Jamaica though, this happened to a lot of countries where the USA would offer jobs to migrants that wanted to come and work. Another example being the pacific Railroads that needed to be build in the 1950's.

Did it challenge any of your assumptions?

I always knew the world wasn't that great of a place. We live in a world where opinion only matters to those who live in it. The world and nature itself doesn't care about your opinion, it has its own law and order that it follows. Pure culture is based off of different areas about different opinions that developed into its own originality of culture. My assumptions didn't change too much because I always had this view on the world. It's the people in it that change things, but the world itself does what it does.